BGS vs. TR, THS, JBSS, HAIN, CVGW, SENEA, LWAY, FARM, MDLZ, and HSY
Should you be buying B&G Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of B&G Foods include Tootsie Roll Industries (TR), TreeHouse Foods (THS), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), The Hain Celestial Group (HAIN), Calavo Growers (CVGW), Seneca Foods (SENEA), Lifeway Foods (LWAY), Farmer Bros. (FARM), Mondelez International (MDLZ), and Hershey (HSY). These companies are all part of the "packaged foods & meats" industry.
B&G Foods (NYSE:BGS) and Tootsie Roll Industries (NYSE:TR) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
B&G Foods has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tootsie Roll Industries has a beta of 0.16, meaning that its stock price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500.
B&G Foods pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. Tootsie Roll Industries pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. B&G Foods pays out -52.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tootsie Roll Industries pays out 27.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. B&G Foods is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
B&G Foods currently has a consensus price target of $9.50, suggesting a potential downside of 0.42%. Given B&G Foods' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe B&G Foods is more favorable than Tootsie Roll Industries.
Tootsie Roll Industries has a net margin of 12.51% compared to B&G Foods' net margin of -5.42%. Tootsie Roll Industries' return on equity of 11.63% beat B&G Foods' return on equity.
In the previous week, B&G Foods had 3 more articles in the media than Tootsie Roll Industries. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for B&G Foods and 2 mentions for Tootsie Roll Industries. B&G Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Tootsie Roll Industries' score of -0.49 indicating that B&G Foods is being referred to more favorably in the media.
66.2% of B&G Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.3% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of B&G Foods shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 68.5% of Tootsie Roll Industries shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
B&G Foods received 196 more outperform votes than Tootsie Roll Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.52% of users gave Tootsie Roll Industries an outperform vote while only 54.80% of users gave B&G Foods an outperform vote.
Tootsie Roll Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than B&G Foods. B&G Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tootsie Roll Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
B&G Foods and Tootsie Roll Industries tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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